An Interview with Nass Co-Founder, Robert Faggen ‘82
Learning about the origins of the Nassau Weekly and how its first writers carved out a new journalistic space on campus in 1979.
Nassau’s Birth
Considering how the Nass has simultaneously transformed and remained the same.
The First Days of Nassau Weekly
“It set for me a prime model of the meaning of a labor of love.”
The Compugraphic EditWriter 7500
“The Nassau Weekly felt like a really grown up thing, probably the first for me.”
Remarks by the designers of the satiric science fiction comic strip of the Nass in 1979
Don Storm ‘80 and I wrote and drew “Verity,” a satiric science-fiction comic strip for the Weekly, thanks to Bob Faggen ‘82 taking a chance on us. The strip took longer to produce than we anticipated, and we were grateful that the Weekly, in its first incarnation, came out a little less frequently than once […]
Early Days of the Nass
“It had admirable staying power, since it it obviously filled a need.”
A reflection by Todd Purdum ‘82, a national editor and political correspondent for Vanity Fair
“There was a sense that we were doing something fun and daring..“
Sold on the Nass
Beginning the business team of the “nascent” Nass.
One of the first Nass writers, on the importance of the paper and its unique vision at Princeton
“We wanted to practice a different kind of journalism—more feature-driven, accommodating to individual voices, and reflective of the campus experience.”
An exhortation to “make something out of nothing”
“What new (ad)ventures are you creating today?”
My Recollections of the Founding of Nassau Weekly
“I am quite overwhelmed and somewhat surprised that something that I helped get off the ground over as generation ago is still relevant and cherished over 40 years later”
Reflections on the Nass by the 2013 Editor-in-Chief
“We amused ourselves, and, perhaps infrequently, others. We wrote screeds on music and books and movies and food at an emotional wattage only the undergraduate soul can muster.”
Nass Memories
“I cannot do justice to the absolute force for good the Nassau Weekly was and is in my life.”
Secretly Sexy: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? A Follow-Up Top Forty List, 15 Years Later
Reviving and revising the “Secretly Sexy” list of 2004 in 2019.
Crossword #5
The Nassau Weekly’s fifth crossword puzzle.
Pat MacDonald ’22 Reflection
“the Nass is really one of a kind”
Violet Marmur ’22 Reflection
“I was attracted to this accepting community, a space for anyone to express themselves and their thoughts beyond pure academics.”
Peter Taylor ’22 Reflection
“I had made a positive impact on someone else; I had connected through my words to another mind, another person.”
Faith Emba ’21 Reflection
“My response was: ‘idk but it’s fun.’”
Tess Solomon ’21 Reflection
“I hope and expect those feelings will only increase as I watch where it goes in the next forty.”
Breaking My Nose
“But yes, dear reader, I was PMCed on a Tuesday.”
Telescoping Memories II
“The Nass taught me to trivialize the serious, to take seriously the trivial.”
Justin Gerald ’07 Reflection
“first part of Princeton that actually made me feel good about myself”
Meredith Root-Bernstein ’04 Reflection
“I loved reading the Nassau Weekly.”
Theola DeBose ’96 Reflection
“But it was just that, a wanting, and I had never been published.”